Anya Firestone, Tour Guide and Star of ‘The Real Girlfriends of Paris,’ on ‘The Art of Drinking’

On a latest morning on the Louvre, Anya Firestone handed out bottles of Evian. “As a result of ‘the artwork of ingesting’ begins with hydration,” she mentioned.

Ms. Firestone, 34, a museum guide-conférencière (tour information) and artwork integration strategist, wore rhinestone earrings within the form of olive martinis, pink Manolo Blahniks, the Mini Bar clutch by Charlotte Olympia and a Marni costume printed with likenesses of Venus.

She escorted Matt Stanley, her shopper, and his Parisian date, Salomé Bes, 30, previous the lengthy strains on the museum’s entrance and towards the Code of Hammurabi. The set of historic Babylonian legal guidelines included “a watch for a watch,” she defined, and it additionally handled problems with alcoholic drinks, like watered-down wine and the peoples’ “proper to beer,” as she pithily put it.

“Fairly spectacular!” mentioned Mr. Stanley, the chief government of a reminiscence care group close to Austin, Texas. Mr. Stanley, 43, had employed Ms. Firestone to design a two-day go to round alcohol.

“You’re going to see that ingesting and artwork had the identical upbringing and moved in the identical path — from a non secular context with prayers and libations to decadence and debauchery,” mentioned Ms. Firestone, who calls her customized excursions “cou-tours,” a play on couture.

Final fall, Ms. Firestone starred in “The Actual Girlfriends of Paris,” a actuality present broadcast on Bravo that adopted six 20- and 30-something American ladies as they navigated work, life and l’amour. She mentioned that the chance to place her enterprise, referred to as Maison Firestone, on public view was the principle purpose she had achieved the present.

However Ms. Firestone had additionally appreciated the thought of elevating the oft-scorned TV style with artwork and tradition. (To not point out some pun- and Yiddish-inflected wit.) “By the way in which,” she mentioned, “I don’t describe myself as American. I say I’m New-Yorkaise.”

Ms. Firestone was raised within the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood Manhattan; her mother and father have been actors. She first moved to Paris in 2010 after school at George Washington College, for an artist residency, throughout which she wrote poetry and sculpted oversize macarons. (Folks thought they have been colourful hamburgers,” she mentioned, explaining that the confection had not turn out to be common but.)

She labored briefly as an au pair, channeling Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp, she mentioned. However Ms. Firestone likened her present plot to the TV exhibits “Emily in Paris” — “Love her chutzpah, much less her bucket hats,” she mentioned of the protagonist — and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

After a grasp’s diploma in French cultural research from Columbia International Heart in Paris, she spent just a few years touring between New York and Paris, providing customized excursions and writing about artwork and model intersections for Highsnobiety. Maison Firestone — which additionally designs themed occasions with luxurious manufacturers — adopted from that curiosity in “artwork as branding,” she mentioned.

At “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” a white marble statue from Hellenistic Greece, higher generally known as “Niké,” for instance, Ms. Firestone famous that the determine’s wings had impressed the sportswear empire’s Swoosh brand.

Ms. Firestone’s shoppers used to seek out her solely by phrase of mouth, however now about half of them, together with Mr. Stanley, come to her through the Bravo present and Instagram. The bulk are visiting France from the USA; the price of a tour begins at $2,400 for one or two individuals for in the future.

Her angle is to take “artwork off the wall to point out its intersection with issues that folks already take pleasure in and eat,” Ms. Firestone mentioned, be it champagne or Schiaparelli or N.F.T.s. Current and upcoming excursions have been designed for drag queens, the crypto staff at a enterprise capital agency, “Eloise-like” little ladies with a keenness for dinosaurs, and a person who’s blind.

Working her manner by Dionysian artwork and ornamental works, Louis XIV’s stemware, and the occasional Bravo fan (“I simply need to say that I cherished the present!”), Ms. Firestone directed Mr. Stanley and Ms. Bes into the museum’s largest room, the place the Mona Lisa hangs on a wall throughout from “The Wedding ceremony Feast at Cana,” an immense piece by the Sixteenth-century artist Paolo Veronese that depicts Jesus Christ turning water into wine. “You possibly can see wine tastings occurring everywhere in the portray,” she mentioned.

After lunch on the Ritz, which naturally featured cocktails and champagne, the itinerary referred to as for the Musée d’Orsay. “The Louvre was a former palace, this is a former prepare station,” Ms. Firestone mentioned. She likes companion visits to the 2 museums, which, she mentioned, assist to point out how artwork entered modernity by breaking from the monarchy, the church and the academy and spilling into the cafes of Paris.

“L’Absinthe” by Edgar Degas pictured what she referred to as a “tapped out” girl with a glass of the notorious inexperienced spirit on a desk earlier than her. Close by was a portray by Édouard Manet of the identical girl (the actress Ellen Andrée), titled “Plum Brandy.” Ms. Firestone prompted her shoppers to ponder the distinction. “She’s not practically so unhappy or so schnockered right here, proper? She appears OK.”

Paris, she mentioned, had by then been remodeled by Napoleon III’s city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann, bringing with it grand department shops like Le Bon Marché and Samaritaine.

Ms. Firestone and Mr. Stanley met the subsequent day at Samaritaine, the place she had organized for a cognac tasting and a few buying within the personal residences with a stylist. “Bonjour. How y’all doin’?” Mr. Stanley mentioned, greeting the employees. “I’m not an aristocrat — I’m only a cowboy!” He selected a pair of drawstring trousers by Maison Margiela.

Afterward, in a taxi, Ms. Firestone pointed at a Prada advert that includes Scarlett Johansson. “I believe they’re referencing that Man Ray picture of Kiki de Montparnasse,” she mentioned. “We like a superb art-brand ref.” She Googled the Man Ray {photograph} on her telephone and held it up for Mr. Stanley to see, who mentioned he felt like he had gotten a grasp class.

“Who doesn’t love their hand-held in Paris?” Ms. Firestone mentioned.